BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER ISSN 1754-9086 No. 70 December 2011 - January 2012

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Artists’ Books Exhibitions University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Tom Trusky Exhibition Cases Special Collections Room, Bower Ashton Library

Bob Cobbing and the Book 2nd December 2011 – 31st January 2012 Curated by Lawrence Upton

In Hendon, in the early 1950s, (1920 – 2002) was Organising Secretary to a number of local artistic groups including writing, painting and drama under the title Hendon Experimental Arts Society.

of Cobbing’s own work. Those who would have more background are referred to the unparalleled 1970s essays by listed below. Writers Forum eventually separated itself; and, in 1963, started to become a major small press which, by 2002, had Cobbing was a painter initially and then a poet. As Lawrence published over 1000, perhaps as many as 1300 titles. Upton said of the exhibition he curated at Space Studios, March – May 2011: “I can state my overriding thesis very In this collaborative enterprise, Cobbing was first among simply: Bob Cobbing, the painter, was poetic; Bob Cobbing, equals, as recognised by the title of the 1974 Ceolfrith Arts the poet, was painterly.” Centre exhibition Bob Cobbing and Writers Forum. Cobbing resisted the notion that his books were “artists’ Others came and went; but Cobbing persisted until, in books”, which might seem strange; but his policy was, in 2002, a day before he died, he handed the running of the Mottram’s words, “enabling most people who wanted to buy WF workshop and WF publishing to Adrian Clarke and poetry not to be drastically out of pocket”. Lawrence Upton, the product of several years consultation with the two. To that end, he often published at below cost price; and, often, he used the simplest production methods, including Clarke resigned in 2010; but Upton continues, assisted by ink duplicating and, later, office photocopying. Binding was Tina Bass. by office stapler.

Upton has written extensively of Cobbing’s use of the book Alternatively, he printed on cards and “bound” them in as a medium for visual poetry in Bob Cobbing and the envelopes and later, when they became commonplace, in book as medium; but this exhibition concentrates upon plastic document wallets. introducing some of the publications themselves, especially

Pa g e 1 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Participating artists include: Mary Bennett, Allison Bruns, Chandra Cerrito, David Chelsea, Sue Collard, Anna and Leo Daedalus with Samuel Miller, Kerry Davis, Tamara English, Adrianne Feldstein, Linda Hutchins, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Laura LeHew, David Meeker, Bonnie Meltzer, Jim Neidhardt, Cynthia Nawalinski, Jane Schiffhauer, Joanna Thomas, Robert Tomlinson, Renee Zangara.

23 Sandy Gallery is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Noon to 6pm. plus late on First Friday. We are also very generous with appointments outside of gallery hours. Please contact Laura Russell to schedule a visit. We are located at 623 NE 23rd Avenue, just three doors north of Sandy Boulevard in Central Eastside Portland. http://www.23sandy.com Tel: 503-927-4409

Nicola Dale - Kindle John Rylands Library, Manchester, UK Until 29 April 2012 Kindle: v. light (a flame); set on fire v. arouse (with reference to an emotion) n. portable e-reader When it was possible to use other printing methods, he did so; and the 500th and 750th Writers Forum publications were perfect bound litho-printed books, thanks to grant aid.

Using appropriate materials, Cobbing published a wide range of artist-writers in a wide array of formats, sometimes rather large, which made them difficult to display but formally reflected their content. He took great care in the making of the books, literally by hand in the majority of cases: “The standard of production, however inexpensive, began well and improved over the years, but never exceeded the price the majority could pay.” said Mottram.

A prosthetics of poetry: the art of Bob Cobbing by Eric Mottram is available as a pamphlet from Writers Forum

Bob Cobbing and the book as medium by Lawrence Upton is web-published by Readings magazine at http://www.bbk. Nicola Dale’s new artwork Kindle is inspired by the ac.uk/readings/issues/issue4/upton_on_cobbing changing format of knowledge and its current journey out of libraries and books and into circuit boards and light. WRITERS FORUM: A Successful Campaign by Eric Within The Old Map Room of the historic John Rylands Mottram is to be found in Bob Cobbing & Writers Forum Library, the artist has installed thousands of hand-made edited by Peter Mayer, 1974, now reprinted by Writers “candles” made from the pages of unwanted books. In Forum honour of the artwork’s surroundings, these are ordered using a system unique to the work. In addition to Kindle, http://www.lawrenceupton.org the Library is also hosting a retrospective of the artist’s work http://www.wfuk.org.uk/blog within the Crawford Room.

Kindle is present in association with Untitled Gallery. It Welcome to My World: Artists Interpret the Globe has been funded by Arts Council England. Kindle runs 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, USA until 29 April 2012 at John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Until 31st December 2011 Manchester M3 3EH, UK An invitational show co-curated by Robert Tomlinson and 23 Sandy. A stellar list of area artists are creating a piece of The John Rylands Library is open Monday 12:00 - 5:00 | art out of a world globe. Each artist will find a globe and Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 5:00 | Sunday 12:00 - 5:00. alter it, paint on it, collage on it, cut it apart or even electrify The Library will be closed for Christmas and New Year: it to create a totally new piece of art. 23 December 2011 - 2 January 2012.

Pa g e 2 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Les Coleman - Diagrams Fine Impressions Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam Printmaking and artists’ books in Melbourne 1999-2010 Until 17th December 2011 Cowen Gallery, State Library of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Until 16th February 2012 Fine impressions: printmaking and artists’ books in Melbourne 1999-2010 showcases beautiful limited-edition books by 20 Melbourne artists and printmakers. In the digital era the future of the printed book seems uncertain, yet the handmade artist’s book is a flourishing artform. Each of these works is unique in its use of design, typography, paper and binding, both drawing upon and extending the history and tradition of the book. The artists featured include: Angela Cavalieri, Daniel Moynihan, Bruno Leti, Inge King, Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison.

Cowen Gallery, Level 2a, Main entrance: Swanston St Admission Free. www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/fine-impressions

Edgardo-Antonio Vigo An exhibition of Drawings from Afterthunks and other The Research Centre for Artists’ Publications, Study Room books by Les Coleman is on show at Boekie Woekie, Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Berenstraat 16, Amsterdam until 17th December. Until 29th January 2012 www.boekiewoekie.com Conceptualism, Visual Poetry and Mail Art characterize the comprehensive oeuvre of the Argentinean artist Edgardo- Antonio Vigo (1928-1997). In the context of the military ABOT “Artists’ Books on Tour” dictatorship in Argentina, his art constituted a political Until 8 January 2012 – in ; 16 January – 18 March gesture. Through his rubber stamps, artists’ postage 2012 – in Prague; 26 March – 31 May 2012 – in Ljubljana. stamps, text works and his statements, which participated On Monday, 27 June 2011 at the MAK in Vienna, an in a network of international artistic exchanges, he called international jury announced the winners of the Europe- attention to the situation in his native land as well as to the wide artist’s book competition Artists’ Books on Tour: fate of his son – who “disappeared” in 1976 – and of the among 158 projects from 26 European countries, works thousands of other victims of the military dictatorship. by five artists were chosen as winners and recognized with Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art prizes of € 2,000 each; 45 further works received honourable Teerhof 20 28199, Bremen, Germany. mentions. http://weserburg.de

A major aim of the competition was to gain an overview of Europe-wide creative work in the artist’s book genre. A total From 5 - 11 December Annette C. Disslin’s Bleikloetzle of 925 projects from all over Europe were submitted to the is running an Open Studio - Buchdruckatelier bleikloetzle, artist’s book competition Artists’ Books on Tour. Of these, Im Gewerbegebiet 10, D-73116 Waeschenbeuren 158 projects entered the final round following three days of Germany preliminary deliberations by the jury. As a further central element of the project, the MAK is updating and expanding On show is a new series of Lyricards - large sized cards with its database of illustrated books. Its holdings of this type, poems in English or German by writers lincluding Heinrich comprised of around 2,000 objects representing various Heine and Thomas Hood. These cards are letterpress artistic movements ranging from the Vienna Secession, printed beauties: http://www.paper-fold.papiergebunden. Russian Constructivism and Viennese Actionism to de/html/lyricards.html contemporary works, will be digitised and made accessible online to the general public. There will be a wide range of the completely new designed Gourmand’s Books - specifically made for all who love The winning projects of the competition Artists’ Books cooking, collecting and inventing recipes. Many of these on Tour will be shown along with those recognised by new books’ covers have been made from tea towel linen: honourable mentions in the form of a mobile museum http://www.paper-fold.papiergebunden.de/html/ which will make stops in Vienna, Prague and Ljubljana until gourmand_s_books.html May 2012. At the MAK in Vienna, the exhibition Artists’ Books on Tour – Artist Competition and Mobile Museum The range of Culinary books has grown, also there are many will be shown until 8 January 2012 in the MAK Works on new collecting books in country and vintage style: Paper Room. http://www.abot.mak.at/ http://www.paper-fold.papiergebunden.de/html/culinary_ http://www.mak.at/e/jetzt/f_jetzt.htm books.html MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / http://www.paper-fold.papiergebunden.de/html/ Contemporary Art, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna, country___vintage.html

Pa g e 3 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k New on the paper-fold-site is the Chest of Fabric, which Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, True copy, 2011 shows all the fabric on stock at the studio: http://www. Until 17 December 2011 paper-fold.papiergebunden.de/html/chest_of_fabric.html Florence Loewy books by artists, www.bleikloetzle.de www.bleikloetzle-goes-british.de www.papiergebunden.de www.paper-fold.papiergebunden.de

The Paradise of Individuality Graphic Design and Artists’ Books from Leeds College of Art Library’s Special Collections Until 9th December 2011 “…the paradise of individuality…”, George Santayana’s description of graphic design, is an exhibition of artists’ books celebrating the breadth and versatility of graphic design from hand-set type to hand-drawn zines, comic art and illustration. It includes complete facsimile prints of the hugely influential De Stijl journal, highlighting Exposition, portfolio, lancement du dernier numéro de the typographic work of Piet Mondrian and Theo van Böhm. Florence Loewy books by artists Doesburg. These are shown alongside artists’ publications 9 rue de thorigny fr-75003 Paris from Nobrow Press and Ensixteen Editions, and book works www.florenceloewy.com by Andrew Morrison, Jane Kennelly, Michael Caine, Richard [email protected] Long and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Tues - Sat 2-7pm

The exhibition is a small sample of books from Leeds College of Art’s Special Collections in the Vernon Street Hand Voice & Vision Library. The exhibition will be open during term time, Artists’ Books from Women’s Studio Workshop Monday to Friday, 9 am to 4 pm. The Library, Leeds College Smith College, Book Arts Gallery, Neilson Library of Art, Vernon Street, Leeds LS2 8PH. T. 0113 2028096 Level 3, Northampton, MA 01063, USA E. [email protected] Until December 20th, 2011 http://www.leeds-artexhibitions.co.uk/?p=527 Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists’ Books from Women’s Studio Workshop features artists’ books by thirty-six artists published over thirty years by Women’s Studio Art & project bulletins 1-156 / Workshop. Curated by Kathleen Walkup, the exhibition is September 1968 - November 1989 a comprehensive retrospective featuring some of the most Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris influential contemporary book artists in America. The forty Until 23rd December works in Hand, Voice & Vision celebrate three facets that Projects by Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Michael Riedel, Jérôme characterize the artist’s book programme at Women’s Studio Saint-Loubert Bié, Yann Sérandour, Eric Watier and Workshop: the hand-made mark of the book-maker, the Johannes Wohnseifer. From the earliest days in 1968 when unique voices and viewpoints of a broad and diverse range the bulletin appeared Under the title of « Architectural of artists, and the visionary nature of artwork that forges Research » the Small statement printed on the bottom of new directions in the medium of book arts. the front page rings out with the spirit of its time: « art & www.handvoicevision.com project plans to bring you together with the ideas of artists, www.smith.edu/library/fyi/758.htm architects and technicians to discover an intelligent form for your living and working space. Art & project invites you to participate in its exhibitions which will explore ways in You Came and Our Tree Bloomed and Hands of Josephus II by which art, architecture and technology can combine with Miriam Schaer are included in Apocryphal, Traditional, Et you own ideas » Al at The Georgia College Museum, in Milledgeville GA. Curated by Shannon Morris and Jon Coffelt, the exhibition The importance of the bulletins as an archival source on is on now, until 15th February, 2012 the period is unrivalled, both through the quality of the For information about hours and location, visit original page-works and the calibre of the artists involved http://www.gcsu.edu/library/museum/calendar.htm all the key artists from this period contributed one and often more bulletins: Robert Barry made four, Stanley Brown made seven, Jan Dibbets six, Hamish Fulton three, Gilbert & 60|40 George four, Douglas Huebler four, Sol Lewitt five, Richard Gustavsberg Konsthall. , Sweden Long seven, and Allen Ruppersberg two. Until January 8th 2012 Christophe Daviet-Thery Livres et Editions d’Artistes Founder members Tracey Rowledge, David Clarke and 34 rue Louise Weiss, 75013 Paris. Tel : + 33(0)1 53 79 05 95 Clare Twomey will be showing collaborative works. Artist, www. daviet-thery.com blog: davietthery.wordpress.com bookbinder and conservator Tracey Rowledge is also a

Pa g e 4 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m founding member of Tomorrow’s Past. monograph for artists exhibiting in the main gallery. Tracey Rowley www.traceyrowledge.co.uk A special conference edition is published in a run of 250 Tomorrow’s Past at www.outofbinding.com which includes an original work of art. More information is available at www.gustavsbergskonsthall.se Light Work gallery, The Robert B. Menschel Media Center, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, USA. http://www.lightwork.org COMMUNICATE & CIRCULATE: AN EXHIBITION OF PRINTED MATTER Good Press Gallery, Glasgow, UK Keith Smith: Book by Book Until 11th December Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 535 W. 24th Street, NYC An exhibition dedicated to print and publishing in the Until January 7, 2012 independent arts. On show and for sale are a collection of This is a rare opportunity to see a collection of Keith’s one- zines, posters and original works made newly available from of-a-kind work and small editions. self-publishers and small press producers from around the http://www.brucesilverstein.com world.

Featuring works from Booklet Press (JAP), Bongoût (GER), Les vitrines de l’artothèque en résonance in conjunction Cafe Royal (UK), Catalogue Library (UK), Club Muscles with the Biennale d’art contemporaine de Lyon present: (CAN), Pete Willis / Dead Trees and Dye (UK), Jess Wilson Tout Va Mieu - Eric Watier & Gil J Wolman / Duke Press (UK), Bartolome Sanson (FRA), Lachllan Bibliothèque de la Part-Dieu Rattray (UK), Malcy Duff (UK), Mike Perry (USA), Until 31st December 2011 Museums Press (UK), Nieves (CH), N.S.E.W (NOR), bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, la Part-Dieu Smalltime Books (AUS), Superclub (UK), Fiona Allison / 30 boulevard Vivier-Merle 69003 Lyon, Tropical Waste (UK), Theo Simpson / Various Points (UK), http://cdla.info/fr www.lara-vincy.com Victor & Hester (UK) www.ericwatier.info www.monotonepress.net

Good Press Gallery, 12 Kings Court, Glasgow, UK Good Press is open Monday to Saturday, from 11am to 7pm LINEAR B - A memorial project responding to the works www.goodpressgallery.co.uk in the collection of artist Nikos Alexiou The Stephen Lawrence gallery, , UK Until 6th January 2012 Marinus van Dijke Nikos Alexiou’s avant-garde idea to bring together works of A walk, a hundred years, a reconstruction modern and international contemporary art cannot simply De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, The Netherlands be regarded as a mere collection of artwork by other fellow Until 11 December, 2011 artists, since the compilation process is in itself one of the Inspired by an article by F. Bins, published in Buiten artist – collector’s personal and ongoing artistic projects. magazine in 1911, about a walk he took straight through the dunes of Schouwen-Duiveland in 1910, Marinus van Dijke The Stephen Lawrence gallery, University of Greenwich, decided to take the same walk one hundred years later. Queen Ann Court, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, In connection with these walks, Marinus van Dijke was London SE10 9LS. http://alexioulinearb.wordpress.com invited by the editors of the Slibreeks series to design the 137th volume. This chapbook has three parts with a map in each one and is entitled een wandeling honderd jaar een Emblem - Deconstructed And Destroyed: reconstructie (‘a walk a hundred years a reconstruction’). A Homage To John Latham Public Project by Christina Mitrentse The Johan Deumens Gallery in Haarlem also has artist’s Trinity, Greenwich, London, UK books by Marinus van Dijke available for viewing. Until 31st January 2012 De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal Emblem - Deconstructed And Destroyed, is a new public Zusterstraat 7, Middelburg, The Netherlands Billboard installation by Christina Mitrentse commissioned Open Tuesday to Sunday, 1 pm – 5 pm for the site viewable 24/7. Mitrentse’s work reflects the Admission free. http://vleeshal.nl/en/ legacy of the renowned British conceptual artist John Latham (1921 - 2006).

SCOTT McCARNEY VisualBooks The work forms part of Mitrentse’s acclaimed ongoing An exhibition of new works at Light Work project Add To My Library, recently exhibited at Art Work Until 16th December 2011 Space. In response to John Latham’s book-relief sculpture The show is in conjunction with the “Photography + which penetrates the main window fronting Flat Time Publishing Photography Conference” (November 3-5), House in Peckham, Mitrentse’s work takes the form of a a joint effort of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions large-scale screen printed ‘Book Flag’, addressing the Trinity of SPE (Society of Photographic Education). McCarney building’s edifice, paying devoted tribute to this highly has also put together Contact Sheet, Light Work’s award- important post-war artist. winning publication which serves as a catalogue/

Pa g e 5 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k For information on purchasing limited editions prints - of New York neighbourhoods through accumulation of part of the Billboard please contact Trinity on: particular elements that brings the amorphous into the T +44 (0) 7960 991 550 [email protected] more concrete. Central to Barbara Siegel’s sculptural piece http://trinityaligned.wordpress.com is a boulder that began a controversy over geographic Trinity, 310 Creek Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9SW, UK ownership. For another take on the complications of history, Thurs - Sun, 1 - 6pm, Last Fridays Of The Month: 1 - 9pm Elena Costellian finds herself in a space haunted by the act Also by appointment. Site-Specific Work can be viewed of its own past circling around, and documents the process daily, 24 hours. of her process of capturing it through a linear retracing. However perceived, a map guides us to more than one destination. Mapping the Surface Central Booking, Brooklyn, NY, USA Art & Science talk 15 January 6-10pm Until 15th January 2012 We are accustomed to looking at maps in attempts to find Central Booking direction, our relationship to a physical interpretation of 111 Front Street, Suite 210, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA the land. But that land can be more than a city or country, www.centralbookingnyc.com it can help us to navigate our bodies, to understand our environment beyond its physicality into the realm of cultural space, and to grasp an understanding though Known, Unknown, Anonymous, and On Death Row the visceral. Cartographers can tell us more than just the Qbox gallery, routes from one point to another, they can map terrains Until January 14, 2012 of landscape or psychological space, that amorphous state Qbox gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition under that adds up to a sense of a place beyond mere cataloging. the title Known, Unknown, Anonymous and On Death They can also reduce all to the basic, the pure essence of line Row. The show combines artists who have been widely and plane. We may glide across the surface but there always recognized and engaged in the art scene with artists who seems to be a rumble below it, roaming around a skin that have not yet been known or they will never be as they is, as skin is, porous and organic. were not part of the art market. Since in our society the constant demonstration of biographical “databases” has The altered, eroded, sliced and diced work of Doug Beube been increased and the formation of a positive reputation challenges us to read geography in the third dimension. Jeff becomes a lifetime struggle, it is mostly common that Woodbury plays with our idea of mapping both physically looking at someone’s name in an art exhibition could affect with the malleability of rubber maps and metaphorically as our judgment upon the actual work. Despite the nature of we follow a path along a tree branch. Christina Mitrentse the art-piece a name carries all sorts of information and folds, assembles and hides travel maps, subverting their holds a dynamic by-itself, which is something that artists original intent, presenting us with an unreadable atlas as like Marcel Duchamp (pseudonym Rrose Selavy 1921), Heidi Neilson utilises a traditional idea of cartography and Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg (Erased de conceptualises it into an impossibility of a re-configured Kooning, 1953) have dealt with different ways in the past. world.

The collaged artist’s book of Robin Price extends beyond the 43rd parallel into a personal numerology. Cindy Kane maps individuals we think we know in her writers series and explores regions through their particularity of senses; Dannielle Tegeder goes one step further and plots a highly abstracted place in multi-dimensional space.

Haptic Lab, blankets a neighborhood, delineating boundaries through the texture of materials with *Paula Scher graphically interpreting regions, this one guiding us through India. Alastair Noble takes cyanotypes, the blueprints of architects, to emphasise the blueprint of an environment sculpted by nature. Lilla LoCurto & Bill Outcault have long used their own bodies and now others to Among the known and unknown artists in the exhibition extend and flatten skin into a topographical journey. are: Giuseppe Caccavale, Ellie Coates, Sileia Daskopoulou, David Gates, Louise Lawler, Alekos Lorentis, Apostolos Sabra Booth provides an animated excursion of the Michailides, David Mathis, Adrian Piper, Ugo Rondinone, gulf coast, mapping her experience of mapping the Malick Sidibé, Tabakopoulos and Foundoulis, Rosemarie environmental disaster, while Public Laboratories Trockel, Karen Yasinski. A number of works by anonymous photographs the spill from a bird’s eye view, allowing us artists are also included in the show. our own interpretations. The projects of Smudge Studio (Jamie Kruse and Elizabeth Ellsworth) evoke a time and Qbox Gallery, Armodiou 10, Varvakeios agora, . place through the variety of consciously created elements www.qbox.gr of documentation as Robbin Ami Silverberg creates a sense

Pa g e 6 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Correspondence Rare Beauty: Contemporary Visions in Books Arts The 9th International Book Art Festival, Poland Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT,USA A touring exhibition from January 2012 – December 2014 January 17 - February 19, 2012 Organised by Alicja Slowikowska, founder of the Polish The annual Koopman exhibitions feature the work of the Book Art Project, The theme for the 9th Book Art Project current recipients of the Georgette and Richard Koopman is Correspondence, a creative and wide umbrella title for Chair in the Visual Arts at the Hartford Art School. This this Festival, to encourage the inclusion of unconventional year’s exhibition includes the work of the three 2011/2012 books: from book-objects, book-installations, unique books, chairs in the printmaking department: Steven Daiber, altered books and experimental works, to traditional limited Pati Scobey, and Barbara Tetenbaum. Each of the three editions, fine press books, illustrated stories and so on. Koopman artists have invited fellow book artists to join the The exhibition will be shown in art galleries and libraries exhibition, which will include Julie Chen, Katherine Keuhn, throughout Poland, between 2012 and 2014, and venues and Chip Schilling. abroad later in the programme. The exhibition will open to the public on Tuesday, January The multi-venue tour launches with a Première Exhibition 17, 2012. The gallery will host a panel discussion featuring from January – February 2012 at Plocka Art Gallery in all six of the artists participating in the exhibition, followed Plock, www.plockagaleria.com. From March 2012 until by a public reception on Thursday, February 9, 2012. December 2014, the Festival continues to visit art galleries, libraries and museums in 25 towns and cities over Poland, A full-colour exhibition catalogue will be available for with each venue having a local curator who will contribute purchase. Opening Reception: Thurs, February 9, 5-7pm works to be displayed alongside the larger travelling show. Panel Discussion: Thurs, February 9, 2012, 3:30-5pm, Wilde Auditorium All timetable information on the travelling Correspondence http://www.joseloffgallery.org/exhibitions/ exhibition will be posted online, with a catalogue accompanying the exhibition tour: http://bookart.pl Claire Jeanine Satin will be exhibiting several bookworks, in the invitational show, “Apocraphal, Traditional,et al” Elisabeth Masé - Give me a reason to love you at the Georgia College and State University Museum in Works on paper and artists’ books Milledgeville, GA which will travel to other venues at the Until 23rd December 2011 conclusion of the show in 2012. She has also been invited to Raum für Kunst, Literatur und Künstlerbücher exhibit her work at the San Francisco Center for the Book in Totengässlein 5, 4051 Basel January 2012, in “the Accidental Book”. Tel. 061 261 31 42 / 079 860 12 44 www.kunst-literatur.ch / [email protected] She has created a “Film Dress” out of 35mm film and camera parts for the Ft Lauderdale International Film Festival 2011, which was presented at the Opening Party at Various Portraits Joachim Schmid the Sunrise Civic Center in Sunrise Florida. It will also be les arts au mur and image/imatge, France presented at the closing party on November 11, 2011 at the Until 17th December 2011 Cinema Paradiso & the Manor, Ft Lauderdale, Florida.(I will Several works including the new series Zwölf Frauen send you an image under separate cover). are in two simultaneous exhibitions at les arts au mur/ Arthothèque de Pessac and at image/imatge in Orthez. The artist has received her 2nd Artist Residency to The exhibitions opened in the end of September and the for the Spring of 2012 where she will continue to galleries swapped them in early November. The exhibitions pursue her research on her bookworks. Her first residency continue until December 17. resulted in over one dozen of an ongoing series of WATER BOOKS. She is proposing an exhibition of her Venezia les arts au mur | Artothèque de Pessac, 16 bis, avenue Jean bookworks in Venice, in 2012. Jaurès - 33 600 Pessac image/imatge, L’Imprimerie, 15 rue Aristide Briand, 64300 One of her bookworks in the series ‘ARTYPING” which is Orthez in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, has been published in the 2nd edition of THE BOOK New books you may want to have a look at, Zwölf Frauen, AS ART, 2011. [email protected] Untitled Portraits and Around the World in Eighty Minutes. You’ll find detailed information on http://schmid. wordpress.com/publications/books-on-demand/ Sharon Kivland. Amateur and Collector An exhibition with my football series O Campo will open Curated by Sotiris Kyriacou at BBK Bilbao on January 17th, 2012, and an extensive IDEAS Store Whitechapel retrospective of the last decade of my work including many 9 December 2011 - 8 January 2012 pictures that were never shown before will open at Zephyr 321 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1BU Mannheim on January 21st. My new book Bilderbuch will http://www.ideastore.co.uk be launched on the occasion of this exhibition. For more details please visit: http://schmid.wordpress.com

Pa g e 7 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Spy Emerson - Consumption Cover Artist for this issue of the ban: Accident and Artifact, San Francisco, USA Wuthering Heights book sausage by artist and librarian Until January 4th 2012 Katie Herzog. Referencing Dieter Roth’s literature sausages Consumption: A century ago, it meant a deadly, wasting made in the 1960’s and 1970’s, I have done a series of disease. Now, it’s every citizen’s sacred duty, stoking the performances using digitised books requested from the insatiable engines of the GDP. In her new installation at public and downloaded, printed, shredded, and stuffed. Accident and Artifact in San Francisco, conceptual artist Spy Emerson examines consumption from every angle. Literally The work is meant to be a playful reflection of the Fluxus setting the table for the holidays, Emerson has created a state of the publishing industry, and to express a level veritable groaning-board of found and re-purposed objects. of absurdism present in the general public’s navigation All are meant to be consumed, and replenished, though the of copyright law and the politics surrounding digitised duration of the show - including limited-edition dishware information. www.katieherzog.net designed by Emerson herself. In addition, Accident will feature a sampling of Emerson’s flatworks, along with original illustrations from Dr. Hal Robins, noted polymath, and stalwart of Church of the SubGenius. ANNOUNCEMENTS

Accident and Artifact 381 Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA CODEX Foundation is pleased to announce a new www.accidentandartifact.com collaboration between Stanford University Libraries and http://jackiemagpie.com/2011/10/a-shop-with-a-story/ the CODEX Foundation in partnership with Centro More information available at www.spygirlfriday.com Cultural Estacion Indianilla and Tonaltepec Global S.C. inaugurating CODEXMEXICO. Please join us in Mexico City in February for our special exhibition and TO PAY RESPECT TO THE GENEROSITY OF THE conferences. THREE-MINUTE PUNK-ROCK SONG Crate Studio and Project Space, Margate, UK On February 16, 2012, the exhibit Libros de Artista will Until 18 Dec 2011 open at the Centro Cultural Estacion Indianilla in Mexico Exhibition curated by Toby Huddlestone. City. The exhibition is comprised of a collection of original Artists: Vito Acconci, Black Argos, David Blamey, José hand-made volumes printed in California and drawn from Arnaud-Bello, Sovay Berriman, Don Celender, Loz Chalk, the collections of Stanford University Library with an equal Rob Chavasse, , Desmond Church (with number of artist’s books made by Mexican artists and Egle Kulbokaite and Sabel Gavaldon), Patrick Coyle, printers - a ground-breaking cross-border collaboration. Andrew Cross, David Cross, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, At the Mexico City inauguration, The CODEX Foundation Anthony Gross, S Mark Gubb, David Hall, Rose Kallal, in collaboration with Centro Cultural Estacion Indianilla Adam Knight, Frank Koolen, John Latham, Jamie Bracken will host an international forum of interested institutions, Lobb, Elizabeth McAlpine, Julie McCalden, Ronan McCrea, curators, presses and individuals to begin a serious Magnets, David Martin, Nelson Melo and Carolina Rito, discussion of the goals and strategies of implementation Suzanne Mooney, Lawrence Norfolk and Neal White, of the mission laid out in the CODEXMEXICO Manifesto. Graham Parker, Kelvin Pawsey, Laurence Payot, Pedro Diniz This discussion/action group is designed to seed not only Reis, Andrea Schlieker, Anthony Shapland, Gregg Stobbs, the study and art of the book in Mexico but eventually Barry Sykes, Aron Taylor, Sue Tompkins, Gavin Turk, Mark spreading out to all Latin America. Aerial Waller, Neal White, Carey Young + more. Fri-Sun 12-6pm. Crate Studio and Project Space, 6 Bilton Peter Rutledge Koch, The Codex Foundation Square, Margate, UK. www.cratespace.co.uk 2205 Fourth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA Telephone 510 849-0673 The CODEX Foundation Out of the drawer http://www.codexfoundation.org 107 Workshop, Melksham, UK CODEXMEXICO Until 12 December 2011 http://www.codexfoundation.org/mexico-en.html 107 Workshop invites you to an exhibition of fine art handmade books and prints, both modern and taken out of the drawer. Exciting discoveries are to be found within Bibliotheca - Amir Brito Cador the 107 collection and we have had the privilege to be “Bibliotheca” is a collaborative project by Professor Amir consigned books by groundbreaking artists. On display Brito Cador (School of Fine Arts – EBA/UFMG). An artistic there will be work by artists such as S.W. Hayter, Howard project and at the same time an academic research about Hodgkin, Patrick Hughes and Tom Philips. It is with artists’ books and its relationship to the idea of a “visual pleasure we also showcase new works on paper by John encyclopaedia”. I need 96 books to complete the inventory. Eaves and Celia Cook. Mon - Fri, 9am – 5 pm. The project intends to give to artists and researchers the Weekends by appointment. 107 Workshop, The Courtyard, opportunity to have primary information, to get in touch or Bath Road, Shaw, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 8EF, UK to see these books, not only their reproduction in the pages Tel: 01225 791800. Fax: 01225 790948. of another book. If you want to collaborate, please visit: www.107workshop.co.uk [email protected] http://seminariolivrodeartista.wordpress.com/bibliotheca/

Pa g e 8 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m GIVE and GET: probing value through exchange Emily Artinian and Lin Charlston 2011

PIECE-OF-SHELL Chain of exchanges at The Small Publisher’s Fair 10th and 11th November 2011: I have exchanged a recommendation for a lovely film for a piece of sea shell that resembles slightly unnerving lips. Announcing the annual SFCB Holiday Fair! Saturday December 10th 12-5pm FREE The San Francisco Center for the Book is proud to announce the upcoming arrival of our annual Holiday Fair! Join us at the Center on Saturday, December 10 from 12- 5pm for drinks, snacks, mingling and to support the work of local Bay Area artisans. Enjoy a hearty holiday selection of hand-crafted stationery, letter-pressed goods, books, journals, prints and more!

The event will feature live music, delicious food, and the opportunity to browse our incredible selection of handmade goods. There’s no better place to find hand-made gifts for your family, friends and yourself!

SFCB, 300 De Haro Street, San Francisco CA 94103 http://sfcb.org

I have given my own piece of work ‘Birdsong and COURSES, LECTURES, CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS Harlequins’ in return for a recommendation of a film.

I have given a sixpence (1957). This has been my lucky coin Japanese Bookbinding: for a long time. I wish the receiver lots of luck. In exchange A One-Day Bookbinding Course With Guy Begbie for work from the last exchange. Bath Artists’ Studios, Bath, UK 11 Dec 10.30am - 4.30pm £35 I gave a free Tony Bennett itunes download and I took a lucky 1957 six pence, I need luck! Sila

I left 3 travelcards that I have used over the last month. They had a total value of £21.90. Now they are worthless!! Took an itunes download.

I took three ”useless” travelcards in exchange for a small pink pencil from the Affordable Art Fair.

I left a green pen and I took a pink pencil... I think it could be a great promise.

“There’s a lot of rubbish in my handbag” yet I swapped my favourite essence, a few drops left in the bottle, for a green pen from Italy. This is an opportunity to make and take away two bespoke hand made books. Using Japanese side sewing techniques I swapped some stamps for lavender essence. you will be taught how to produce soft and hardback cover books in a landscape format using paper based materials Swapped a little package (for collage) for one with stamps- and book cloth. look forward to following its journey.

This bookbinding method can be used to bind sets of single Make an exchange and join the discussion pages together using traditional Japanese sewing patterns. www.giveandget.ws

The workshop is designed for participants either with or without previous experience of bookbinding and all materials will be provided.

Pa g e 9 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Multi-Functional Pocket Sized Loose & Simple Bindings II Hard Back Concertina Books Summer workshop in Stockholm 2012 A One-Day Bookbinding Course With Guy Begbie With Cristina Balbiano d’Aramengo from Professione Bath Artists’ Studios, Bath, UK Libro, Milan, Italy, July 28 - August 3, 2012 at Jouper Saturday 17 Dec 10.30am - 4.30pm £35 Design, Stockholm, Sweden Back by popular demand just in time for Christmas. Here is your opportunity to make and take away your own uniquely designed handmade book. Learn the art of bookmaking, crafting a multi-functional pocket sized hard back concertina book containing a variety of page sequencing, viewing configurations and pull out options for display. Discover different methods of folding, sewing and pasting and learn how to use various types of paper stock, paper engineering and page cutting techniques. The workshop is designed for participants either with or without previous experience of bookbinding and all materials will be provided.

Bath Artists’ Studios, The Old Malthouse, Comfortable Place, Upper Bristol Road, Bath BA1 3AJ http://www.bathartistsstudios.co.uk/classesworkshops.html The aim of this seven-day workshop is to learn different Tutor Guy Begbie. Guy is an internationally established types of non adhesive constructions very useful in all kinds book artist and traditionally trained bookbinder. He is the of communication, in book arts as well as in conservation Book Arts Coordinator and lecturer at Hereford College of bindings. New ways of thinking, tricks and techniques will Arts and has taught book arts in UK universities since 1995. inspire you to continue develop your own personal style. We welcome participants from all related professional fields, To Book a place on the workshop please contact Guy such as graphic designers, artists, bookbinders, calligraphers, Tel: 07989393015. Email: [email protected] architects and more. All levels. www.guybegbie.com Registration and more info through the BK network, www.bokbindarkompetens.se at Jouper Design: SFCB SPRING 2012 WORKSHOPS NOW ONLINE! [email protected] or [email protected], +46 73 73 555 44 The San Francisco Center for the Book’ Spring 2012 workshops are now listed online. Time to pull out your 2012 calendars and fill your nights and weekends with book arts Wire Edge Bindings goodness! SFCB classics and new techniques/instructors A week-long workshop in Stockholm 2012 are all heartily represented. SFCB, 300 De Haro Street, San With Daniel E Kelm from the Garage Annex School Francisco CA 94103. www.sfcb.org in Easthampton, Massachussetts, USA. October 29 - November 2, 2012 at Jouper Design, Stockholm, Sweden

Creative bookstructures by Hedi Kyle A workshop with Suzanne Schmollgruber from Ascona Hedi Kyle’s extraordinary book constructions, found between historical and modern designs, will be reconsidered and further interpreted in this workshop. Artful folding, cutting and sewing techniques will present numerous variations of concertina to codex bindings. The aim of the workshop is to create a collection of samples which can be extremely inspiring for our daily creativity. The teacher is Suzanne Schmollgruber, head of the Bookbinding and Design Department at Centro del bel libro, Ascona. Organised in cooperation with Leksands folkhögskola and Langwe Books.

Time: 9 - 12 July 2012. Place: Leksands folkhögskola Students: Max 12. Participation fee: 1060 EUR The fee includes: Course, full board and lodging for 5 nights Whether you wish to produce an elegant codex of sewn and materials. Enrolments to: [email protected] signatures - even one comprised of problematic paper Closing date: June 1, 2012. Information about boarding and (pulpy and soft or thick and stiff) - or are interested in lodging: [email protected] creating a non-traditional book that is sculptural, wire edge Information about workshop: binding can help you achieve your goals. Wire edge styles [email protected] or [email protected] use metal wire along the binding edge. The result in all cases

Pa g e 10 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m is a binding that opens exceptionally smoothly and flexibly. - Insert envelopes to hold extra treasures All levels of experience are welcome. - Apply foldout pages to extend your writing surfaces - Collect ephemera to be used for decoration (photos, Registration and more info through the BK network, collage elements, yarns, threads, buttons, beads, etc.) www.bokbindarkompetens.se at Jouper Design: - Use the pamphlet stitch to bind the signatures [email protected] or [email protected], +46 73 73 555 44 - Participate in a book exchange, best of week show, and fiesta

The 7th Australian and New Zealand Rare Books Summer Lisa Gilbert has been an enthusiastic book artist since School, 6-17 February 2012. Courses include: childhood. She has been illustrating professionally, and teaching art and/or health for the past 20 years. Known 6-10 February 2012 for her use of colour, finely tuned creativity, and excellent Artists’ books, zines and other collaborative ventures technical bookbinding, Lisa has been invited to show her Professor Sasha Grishin, ANU work in three North Carolina exhibitions. She has studied bookbinding, papermaking, and box making at programs 13-17 February 2012 across the U.S., and most recently completed a Penland Botanical riches: the art of the book School of Crafts program. She has taught bookmaking Richard Aitken classes throughout North Carolina, and has a reputation as a patient, encouraging, imaginative, and effective teacher. 13-17 February 2012 Lisa considers herself to be a “cultural navigator” – a well- Ephemera: a collector’s key to the history of books deserved designation since she has travelled to more than Professor Wallace Kirsop, Monash University 25 countries. She purchases, collects, and uses exotic papers on her travels, most recently from Panama, Scandinavia, 13-17 February 2012 and India. Lisa has visited papermaking facilities and The poetics of printing on the iron hand-press bookbinderies across India and has fashioned books from Caren Florence, ANU wood, papyrus, metal, mica, fabric, plastic, vinyl as well as from traditional materials such as handmade and machine- All courses will be held at State Library of Victoria except made decorative papers. the iron hand-press course which will be held at the Ancora She attended Colorado Institute of Art, holds degrees in Press at Monash University, Caulfield Campus. art and business, and the PhD in health education from Rare Books Summer School, State Library of Victoria University of Maryland. Her background is versatile and 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia inventive. Email: [email protected] Fax: 61 3 9639 2978 Cost: The basic cost for the trip is $1,295. USD. Applications close on Friday 9 December 2011 This includes six nights lodging double occupancy with shared bath, six breakfasts, three lunches, four dinners, transportation to the villages, all instruction and most Art Book Binding Workshop In Oaxaca, Mexico: materials. Travel workshops of this type and length cost Capture Your Travel Adventures more than twice as much! The program costs do NOT Make a Handmade Box within a Book: August 1-7, 2012 include airfare, taxes, gratuities, travel insurance, liquor/ alcoholic beverages, some meals as specified in the itinerary, Using handmade local papers, and found objects and entry fees, and some transportation. materials, you will learn to make a travel book with a To see photos of amazing Oaxaca, the project, your day- self-contained box to hold your collected artefacts. Each by-day itinerary, additional travel information, or to ask participant will design a book, prepare the papers and questions, go to: http://oaxacaculture.com/2011/08/art- artefacts, stitch the binding, and make the box enclosure. book-binding-workshop-capture-travel-journeys/ The enclosed box can hold art supplies, treasures, or spiritual talismans. This is a unique art book design created by our instructor Lisa Gilbert. BINDING re:DEFINED courses for 2012 American book artist Emily Martin will give two During this workshop, you will: workshops in Wiltshire, UK in May 2012. - Visit the Taller Arte Papel Oaxaca in San Agustin Etla This is her first time to teach in the UK and a not to be where local papermakers use the traditional methods and missed opportunity to work with such a respected and incorporate regional natural fibers into the paper widely known maker of books. To view the details of these - Purchase materials for the book at the local artisan’s village and the entire programme for innovative binding structures - Browse other markets, museums, art galleries and artist visit www.bookbindingworkshops.com studios to incorporate the textures, colors, and artifacts that exemplify Oaxaca into your book - Explore the anatomy of a book and how to construct one The State Library of Victoria in partnership with - Understand the fundamentals of the craft Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford presents - Construct a sturdy box integrated within the book Love and Devotion: Persian Cultural Crossroads - Make the finishing closures (e.g., paper beads, braided A conference at the State Library of Victoria cords, etc.) 12th - 14th April 2012, Melbourne, Australia

Pa g e 11 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k This cross-disciplinary conference will explore cultural OPPORTUNITIES convergences in literature, art and architecture, history and philosophy from the time of Firdausi in the early Doverodde Book Arts Festival IV & Symposium – 2012 11th century to the present day, within the various Persian A seasonal reminder from Denmark for readers of the empires, Ottoman Turkey, Mughal India and Europe. newsletter:

The two-day conference coincides with a major exhibition Do you like to spend time enjoying beautiful countryside? at the State Library of Victoria, Love and Devotion: Having time to talk and socialize with like-minded book From Persia and Beyond (see at right). The conference is artists? Show and sell work and take part in a thought- presented by the State Library of Victoria in partnership provoking symposium? Listen to good live music while with the Australian National University and with support enjoying food and wine? from The Asian Arts Society of Australia. Then here’s an event for you. . . Distinguished international guests and Australian specialists will explore themes including Persian ideals of love and This will be the fourth time that the restored merchant’s devotion as expressed through the arts, intersections with warehouse by the waters of the Limfjord plays host to a the west, and the contemporary legacy. unique mix of book arts social and creative activity. The 2012 Doverodde Book Arts Festival & Symposium extends The conference keynote speakers are: what has been so special about previous events at this scenic · Professor Charles Melville, University of Cambridge Northern Jutland location. · Dr Stefano Carboni, Art Gallery of Western Australia · Dr Zahra Taheri, Australian National University · Dr Eleanor Sims, independent scholar, London · Dr Mammad Aidani, University of Melbourne

Register your interest: To request a registration brochure (available October 2011), please contact the State Library of Victoria: phone +61 (0)3 8664 7548, or email [email protected]

About the exhibition: Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond. This landmark exhibition at the State Library of Victoria (9 March - 1 July 2012) will feature more than 60 rare 13th- to 18th-century Persian, Mughal Indian and Ottoman Turkish illustrated manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford, as well as editions of European literature, travel books and maps from the collections of the State Library of Victoria.

It is co-curated by Susan Scollay, an art historian who specialises in the art and culture of the Islamic world, and Clare Williamson, the Library’s Exhibitions Curator and co-author of The World of the Book. Events will begin at the waterside Limfjordcentret as before, A lavishly illustrated publication, with contributions on May 17th with a one-day workshop: ‘Nature & Book Art’. by scholars from around the world, will be available for This popular feature of the Festival involves in-house purchase, and the exhibition will be complemented by Nature Guide Søren Kiel leading a guided tour through the a diverse programme of events and activities. For more local landscape of woods, hills and along the water’s edge. information, visit http://www.love-and-devotion.com This is then followed by a bookmaking/binding workshop by designer and book artist Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck that draws material – and inspiration – from the experience. LONDON - INTRODUCTION TO BASIC BOOK- BINDING for Beginners) - ‘MAKE YOUR OWN BOOK’ From May 18th – May 20th the book fair itself will then take Dates throughout 2012 place. A grand opening on the first day will include music 1/ 2/3 day workshops arranged by an old friend of Doverodde, musician Regine 10.30am – 4.30pm in Crouch Hill, London N19 Brunke, playing with her friends from Kassel, Germany as in All Materials are included. previous years. Various skills demonstrated and taught so that you make and take home your completed book. £70 per one day To view the full programme go to the websites: workshop. Minimum age 18. Please note these workshops www.bookarts-doverodde.dk or are not for restoring books. For further information please www.nordicbookarts.ning.com contact Debra Thompson via contact page at: www.tufnellartpress.co.uk Additional Doverodde information:

Pa g e 12 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Top left: Stand area. Top right: Themed exhibition gallery (2011). Bottom left: Ingolf Lienau (violin) & Regine Brunke (cello) playing in the Book Arts ‘Reading Corner’. Bottom right: Exhibitor 2011, Ahlrich van Ohlen, Germany.

International Call for Entries to our themed exhibition: Festival organisers invite an artist or artists-group to create On the margins (May 17th- August 5th, 2012). an installation on the 3rd floor of our unique exhibition Deadline: April 10th 2012 with entry fee: 300 DKK (includes space: the Tower (a memorable landmark silo, from 1966). a copy of the printed catalogue). Three works selected from See website: Call For Artists. Proposal deadline: February the exhibition will receive Doverodde Book Arts Center of 1st, 2012 at 12:00 mid-day. Denmark Award. Writer in residence Booking a stand in the book fair (May 18th-May 20th). We are also delighted to announce writer and artist Nancy Capacity: 24 tables (85 x 120 cm) maximum 300 DKK per Campbell (see www.nancycampbell.co.uk) will spend time artist (includes some meals and refreshments – again check with us before the Festival weekend developing new work to out our website for details). Deadline: March 1st 2012. be exhibited during the event. Exhibitors may also offer ideas for simple and inexpensive workshop activities (1 hour duration) by liaising with Join us at the Limfjordscenter and be a part of making the Festival organisers. Festival & Symposium 2012 even more special than previous years – don’t miss the opportunity to come to the edge of A new initiative is the hosting of the Symposium: Artists’ Denmark to enjoy beautiful book arts and meet fantastic Books Anonymous: On the margins, 2012 taking place artists and people in wonderful surroundings. Saturday evening, May 19th. Papers are invited on any topic relating to artists’ books / book art. See our Call For Papers (If you are interested to see more images from the previous for details, deadline: March 1st, 2012. Festival in 2011 go to www.flickr.com/photos/doveroddebookarts/) Bookings for lovely accommodation in nearby holiday cottages – a few minutes walk from the Limfjordscenter and All information can be found on: at 250 DKK per night, per person – is possible before March www.bookarts-doverodde.dk or 1st. Again see info on our site under Practical Information. www.nordicbookarts.ning.com

Call For Artists Any relevant questions please contact the Festival Organiser There’s also a new challenge for our fourth year: 2012: Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck – [email protected]

Pa g e 13 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k ------To apply please email Deirdre Kelly: [email protected] LAST CALL FOR or download the application form at: www.scuolagrafica.it bookartbookshop’s Bookart Competition December 2011 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Calling Cannaregio 1798, 30121 Venezia, Italy Tel: 041·721· 950 / 041·524·2374 all artists, writers, anglers, gardeners, cooks, scientists, www.scuolagrafica.it / [email protected] enthusiasts of all persuasions

To Celebrate Call for Artists The Tenth Anniversary Exhibition details regarding Artists Book Cornucopia of III, Abecedarian Gallery’s annual juried artists’ book exhibition are now available. The exhibition will be held bookartbookshop April 20 - June 2, 2012 with an entry deadline of January 20.02.2002 - 21.02.2012 31, 2012.

We invite the creation of books on the theme Tony White will be jurying this years’ entries. Tony White is the Head of the Fine Arts Library at Indiana University Bloomington. He is an independent curator and book X = artist who has been involved in the field for 20 years. He or is a founding board member of the College Book Art What is to be done? Association and founder of the Contemporary Artist’s Books Conference that has been held annually in New York 10 pages City since 2008. He has served on the editorial board of 10 copies the Journal of Artist’s Books and currently is Field Editor £1000 in prizes for Artist’s Books and Books for Artists for the College Art Association’s online reviews journal. His research interests Download the entry form: http://www.bookartbookshop. include contemporary artist’s books, print culture, the com/docs/bookart_competition.html intersection of craft and contemporary art, and professional issues in art librarianship. Deadline: 15 December 2011 The full prospectus is available via PDF download from ------Abecedarian Gallery’s website www.abecedariangallery.com or you can email [email protected] to request Minnesota Center for Book Arts is actively seeking new a copy. Artist’s Books for consignment in its retail store.

MCBA has several large events planned for the months Glasgow International Artists’ Bookfair 2012 ahead including November’s Book Arts Fest, and our We are pleased to announce Glasgow International Artists’ December Winter Book Publication Party. These occasions Bookfair 2012. Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th April 2012 draw collecting audiences and provide ample opportunities GIAB 2012 will be open to the public between 11am - 6pm to showcase new work. At this time, we are particularly both days. interested in artists’ books but we will also accept submissions of prints, broadsides and handmade blank GIAB is a showcase of artists’ books produced by local, UK- journals. Submissions are accepted and juried on an on- based and international artists. Books as artworks, old-style going basis. letterpress books, audio books, sculptural books can be seen and bought. To be considered, please email a description of your work, a brief bio, and digital images to MCBA’s Consignment This exciting event will be held in the Exhibition Hall of Manager Beth Carls at [email protected] Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, which is ideally situated in a prime location on the corner of Sauchiehall Street & Buchanan Street in the heart of the city. As ever, entrance is FREE! There will also be the possibility of participating in a Venice Summer Residencies 2012 at the Scuola range of bookbinding workshops. Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia Artists’ Books, Printmaking, Painting/Drawing, Writing We have updated the website so please take a look - The Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia was http://www.giab.org.uk founded in 1969. In the large facilities in Cannaregio, one of the most lively neighbourhoods in Venice, the Scuola * If you are interested in booking a table, you can do this organises programmes for graduate and undergraduate online now - have a look at the menu item how to book Italian and international students and offers studio space a table to the left of the website. The booking deadline is for independent artists-in-residence. Tuesday 31st January 2012

Pa g e 14 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m * If you are interested in becoming involved with the GIAB From Gracia & Louise. A link to the film of Gracia Haby’s & the event, why not contact us, we are always looking for most recent artists’ book, Those First Aerial Travellers. volunteers to help us out on the two days. “The sixth tiny film in an ongoing series, this time we are * If you would like to run a workshop, please email us with taking you to the moon in our hot air balloon. This artists’ details of the workshop book, The First Aerial Travellers, was made especially for * You can browse through our participants from GIAB 2008 Hand Held Gallery’s In Suspense exhibition, November & 2010 on our website 2011. This film is our record of said book. This film is for you to turn the pages, as it were, as Rudy Vallee (Home) We will continue to update the website, e.g. with details sings in your ear soft lullaby. Shh... we are in a library.” of workshops available, so please keep checking for more http://vimeo.com/31713529 information: http://www.giab.org.uk

Also from Gracia & Louise, a link to the artists “talking The next IAPMA Congress 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA about collage, collaborations, honeybee scissors and FDH joins IAPMA at the Morgan Conservatory Diana monkeys with Camila Galaz on her show Let’s Art October 17-21 (episode #9) on Radio Valerie.” http://www.mixcloud. The International Association of Hand Papermakers and com/radiovalerie/lets-art-with-camila-galaz-episode-9- Paper Artists (IAPMA) celebrated 25 years in 2011, with a november-9th-2011/ series of exhibitions and events worldwide. “In Between” International Paper Art Exhibiton 25yrs IAPMA is on show Craig Atkinson of Café Royal Books has started a new blog 8th Dec 2011 - 25th Feb 2012, at Hanegev museum / site. “It’s for me really but feel free to look! The ability to, http://www.negev-museum.org.il and process of recording a split second as a photograph fascinates me. The new site is me kind of doing that and News and information is online at http://www.iapma.info noting how, perhaps, and the camera I use. I ‘try’ a lot of IAPMA has a vibrant and varied membership encompassing cameras and tend to go back to the same one / two most of papermaking and paperarts including book arts. the time.” www.grd4.com The IAPMA Congresses are informative and inclusive, and last year was held in Wonju, South Korea. Link to group images: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1480631@N25/ Book Works is pleased to announce a newly designed website and digital archive that, for the first time, includes Members of IAPMA and Friends of Dard Hunter will join material ranging from finished works to ephemera, together for a 5-day international conference hosted by The correspondence, photographs and manuscripts providing Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory and Education. an insight into the working processes of both the publishing Cleveland, Ohio, USA, October 17-21 2012. For more and studio sections of the organisation. information contact Gail Stiffe: [email protected] http://iapma.info The website now presents a timeline, from the present year to our origins in 1984, of Book Works publications, projects, and events; examples of work from the Book Works Studio; and a digital archive of documents, images and ephemera. INTERNET NEWS www.bookworks.org.uk

Online exhibition matchbox zines and bound and bagged Banner Repeater is an artist led reading room and project project: www.australianbookartsjournal.com space, situated on Platform 1, Hackney Downs railway These projects began with a set of materials that could be station, London E8 1LA. Its reading room dedicated to incorporated into a book in a bag, or a zine in a matchbox. artists’ printed material provides an important bibliographic We were overwhelmed with and inspired by the standard of resource, somewhere that all visitors to BR can browse, the works we received. Ten of these are featured in the next alongside an ambitious exhibition programme of new art issue of the Australian Book Arts Journal, December 11. If work installed in a highly visible and accessible project you wish to purchase just that copy, please contact linda@ space. The reading room and project space is open 6 days a australianbookartsjournal.com for a copy at $20.00 AUD week. www.bannerrepeater.org (Australia) which includes postage and handling. Overseas rates on request. FOLD - Clare Bryan, Sue Doggett, James Keith, Penny From books bound in kangaroo leather with imaginary Stanford would like to invite you to view their current drawn maps to lithographs with minimal etchings, this and new work on their new website: exhibition has brought together 33 artists from Australia, www.cargocollective.com/fold New Zealand, the USA, Canada and the UK. The standard contact: [email protected] of work is excellent and we would like to thank all artists who submitted their work. New North Press has a newly designed website, including http://www.australianbookartsjournal.com/galleries/bound- letterpress videos at: www.new-north-press.co.uk and-bagged-online-exhibition/

Pa g e 15 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k A Poem to Philip Glass Barrie Tullett, The Caseroom Press

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NEW: T.P. 2011 - Out of binding by Carmencho Arregui Tomorrow’s Past Paris 2011 is on line. Visit here to see this year’s bindings: http://www.outofbinding.com/2011.htm If you want to know about Tomorrow’s past binders and see the description of their bindings and books visit: The book is a typographic response to the music of Philip http://www.outofbinding.com/tp_binders.htm Glass. The original patterns were created on a Brother

Electric Typewriter, then photocopied and overlaid to form patterns responding to a particular piece of music. Pauline Lamont-Fisher has a newly updated website. These were then taken edit and selected to form a sequential “I have been making artist’s books for nearly 10 years. narrative across the pages of the book. It is the first My practice is principally based on walking but some of exploration into a larger project. my books have not involved walking at all, although the idea for the book may have been formed on a walk.” www.burntbarn.co.uk

Word on Promotion or The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Dematerialisation by Herman Schmitz Published in dematerialised universe that is the Internet, but keeping the classic format of the book, this book brings together a site some philosophy, something of literature, science, criticism, and my mental trips, coupled with a graphic treatment specific to each page. This is a self- evident example of the process of dematerialisation of the artwork and present a way of promoting my independent book to publishers and major media. http://www.palavraempromocao.com.br If you like the music of Philip Glass, phase patterns, typewriters and concrete poetry – this is the book for you. Rare Autumn has made some changes to her website. The full sequence of images can be viewed at: With an extensive overhaul of the link lists, a resource for http://www.barrieagogo.co.uk/Glass.html book related stuff, such as libraries/institutions/collections, people that make books, collectives/networks/small Further works will explore the format of the book as well bookstores & presses, etc. http://rareautumn.blogspot.com as other printmaking resources. Edition of 50, 2011, The Caseroom Press, 200 x 143mm. £15 http://www.the-case.co.uk/PoemtoPhilipGlass.html NEW ARTISTS’ PUBLICATIONS

New e-publications by Nicolas Frespech THEARTISTSBOOKANEWHISTORY By Michael Hampton Candidature Published by Banner Repeater 2011 Mots clés: portrait / emploi / qualités / décrire / candidature Pamphlet ISSN 2045-8266 ENGLISH VERSION (65ko) THEARTISTSBOOKANEWHISTORY has been configured http://frespech.com/ebook/#candidature as a manifest, made up of two interrelated elements: a revisionist historical survey, and a specially selected big list. Bookcases Together they constitute a new theoretical model for the “The books are definitely not works of art in the same sense book per se, which for the first time treats the artists’ book, as paintings [...] They’re tied to a bookshelf. “Ed Ruscha not as a separate Cinderella species, but a form responsible http://frespech.com/ebook/ for the re-invigoration of the entire genus.

Pa g e 16 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Expanding the frame of reference for the artists’ book and take part. The series has eight traditionally listed geocaches re-conceiving its content and structure is a move designed with the ninth only being revealed once you have visited the to resolve once and for all the identity crisis which has others. If you succeed a prize awaits… continuously beset it.

No longer a mere supplement to the conventional book, it is time to challenge the exclusivity which has defined a book as “artists’”, and further enhance the processes of demystification and democratisation which contemporary art must embrace if it is to survive as a critical tool, rather than part of a banker’s investment portfolio.

The historical revisionism embodied in THEARTISTSBOOKANEWHISTORY demonstrates the shortcomings of the brackets hitherto used to classify and delimit the artists’ book, opening the way for it as part of a diverse bibliographic flora and fauna, to reflect the catastrophic socio-economic conditions of the 21st century. http://www.bannerrepeater.org/reading-room/now The prize is a limited edition artist’s book by Stuart with one page dedicated to each of the nine sites. The pages are 500 copies available, free from Banner Repeater gallery, or screen-printed and through text & image explore some of by means of a 1st class SAE (A5 envelope) sent to: Michael the hidden stories of the cache site. Hampton at 63A Grayshott Rd., London SW11 5TS. The nine geocaches can be visited in a day by fit walkers but are more realistic over two days… Or more, apart from a bit Colin Sackett is publishing the first titles under his new of rain what’s stopping you? imprint Uniformbooks including Wordage. The separate sections of the The series will remain live until at least Spring 2012. book were written during the twenty years up until 2011; Screen-printed on 360gsm Lambeth cartridge with 2000 the allotted prose parts micron millboard covers. 34 in edition. are now butted together to Published November 2011 make a consecutive set. The process of writing was http://wherespheresintersect.blogspot.com variously prescriptive and http://www.geoartcache.com artificial: transcription from http://www.geoartcache.com manuscript or speech, via word processing and assembly, to the final format m(other) love of a single leaflet or booklet. A collaborative artist’s book made by Bridgette Guerzon Subsequently, most have been Mills, (Chicago, USA) and Hanne Matthiesen (Malling, published again, reformatted as ‘online texts’, where in each Denmark) case what was a paged sequence has become a scrollable depth - a vertical and bottomless page. ISBN 978 0 9568559 3 0, 64pp, 234 x 142, paperback, December 2011, £9.00. Available from www.uniformbooks.co.uk

Where Spheres Intersect Stuart Mugridge Earlier in 2011 Stuart Mugridge was one of three artists commissioned by Chrysalis Arts to take part in a project called Geo Art Cache. The idea behind the project was simply to put art into geocaching.

Stuart developed a cache series called Where Spheres Intersect. After much research into place narrative and local topography nine geocaches were sited in the Upper Wharfedale area of Yorkshire. Produced for the 6th International Artists’ Books Triennial, Would-be participants will need to register with www. Vilnius 2012. “At work, you think of the children you’ve geocaching.com (it’s simple and pain-free!) before they left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left

Pa g e 17 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself, A numbered and co-signed, photocopy booklet, with your heart is rent.” (Gold Meir) original drawing (Carbon black on BFK Rives paper). 12 pages, dimensions 20 x 13.5 cm, edition 10.Numbers Reflections on the dilemma of being a mother (the loving 1/2/3/4 are priced at $90, 5/6/7 are $120 and 8/9/10 are mother sustaining and taking care of your children) and the $150. To reserve a copy email: need also to be “yourself” (professional/artist/whatever). [email protected] Concertina format. 19 x 11 cm. Mixed medi, paper, fabric, New website: http://www.rickmyers.co.uk and encaustic.

New from LENDROIT Éditions Jet Lag #6, #7, #8 Boris Olivier, Guillaume Verdon, Nickolas Mohanna Jet Lag, a collection of zines dedicated to drawing, photomontage and other graphic experiments.

Text and images can be viewed at: http://bgmartjournal. blogspot.com/2011/11/mother-love.html https://ihanne.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/mother-love

New special edition booklet by Rick Myers AFTERIMAGES (2010 / 2011) In March 2010 I sent a book of original drawings to the poet Douglas Blazek. He responded having read the handwritten title “AFTERIMAGES” as being “AFTER/ MASES” and enquired as to my meaning of the #6 by Boris Olivier word “MASES”. #7 by Guillaume Verdon (shown above) #8 by Nickolas Mohanna He continued in his Format A5 / 24 pages / 50 edition / 5 Euros each. response to what Coloured paper 80gsm. might easily be read as insignificant LENDROIT Éditions / In Print We Trust marks on paper, 23 rue Quineleu - 35000 Rennes - France yet his reaction seemed to suggest the absolute essence +33 (0)2 23 30 42 27 of what I had been trying to capture with the drawings. [email protected] Without knowing the title, Blazek went so far as to mention www.lendroit.org afterimages, specifically, within his text.

This special edition version is published a year following the AN OLYMPUS IN THE DREAM original book production. It documents the original book, By Rob Fairley the drawings, and Blazek’s corresponding text. These first This book has taken fifteen years to put together and is a ten copies are numbered, co-signed, and have an original deeply multi layered work working through text, images and drawing tipped-in. music. It exists in an edition of fourteen and while the text in each remains the same (telling a strange autobiographical

Pa g e 18 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m story) the illustrations (over 100) are all hand finished and the Open Eye Gallery between the 28th January and 14th provide a varied counterpoint … each copy therefore is a February 2012. 34 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, EH3 form of variation on an original theme. 6QE, UK. Tel: 0131 557 1020. www.openeyegallery.co.uk

Compound (second edition), work present, work not present, work borrowed work, and work undone. Ralph Dorey

Compound is a rogue spoke from a lost work. Compound Two are 320 x 230mm bound in calf and slip cased… is a bound composite of documentary images, instructions one with the original ending and one with an amended for an application of sculpture and a one act play for three ending. 10 are 300 x 210mm bound in cloth and slip cased sailors discussing the ontological implications of a future … all with the amended ending. Two are bound by Jana parliament of noises, rock videos and marine geography. Liptak from New York (one in soft leather and one in beaten copper) … both with the amended ending.

Edition of 20 plus 5 artist’s proofs, 16 pp, 2011. BW prepared laser print on 135gsm cartridge, plus coloured laser copy paper, plus four dye inkjet plates mounted with animal skin glue, perfect bound with red thread.

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Books are printed on a variety of papers using a multi pass FRANTICHAM’S IMPOSSIBLE POLAROID MADNESS inkjet technique; they include original gilding, cut outs, A renaissance of the Polaroid. drawings, stencils, rubber stamps and paintings. A new trend set by the Austrian company “The Impossible Project”. This company saved the last Polaroid plant in POA. A selection of the books along with many of the Enschede, The Netherlands, and are again producing the original works behind the publication will be exhibited at legendary film but with experimental chemicals.

Pa g e 19 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k POLAROID BOOKS - L O N D O N learn from. From here the rest of the more complex esoteric language was translated by hand before being inserted back into transl8it.com for any others users of the open forum to use (if they ever needed such ‘academic’ vocabulary!).

Photographs taken by Franticham in London in September 2011 with various SX-70 type Polaroid cameras from the seventies, and using PX 70, 100, 600 and 680 from the Impossible Project.

50 pages, 15 x 21 cm. Inkjet on superfine 118 gr. Mohawk. The result of this work is a book that confuses as much as Hand bound limited signed edition of 169 copies. it enlightens. It celebrates the ingenuity in both forms of Screen printed cover. Each copy has an original polaroid on language use, whilst bewildering anyone attempting to read the cover. 50 Euros / 70 US $ / 43 UK Pds. it through a mix of Barthes’ esoteric words and the texters’ You can order by email at [email protected] innovative condensing of characters. or with Paypal online at http://www.redfoxpress.com/ polaroidlondon.html To further contaminate the literary culture that the book aims to confuse, Nick Davies plans to donate the book into every library he has ever visited, hoping to clog the d PlsUR of d Txt arteries of both fction flled regional libraries and dust flled Nick Davies university collections. “There are many different types of intelligence and this book aims to confuse anyone who holds on to our dusty, outdated academic assumptions. This book is an attempt at an Esperanto equivalent for our differing intelligences.” Nik DAvEz

Text messaging has often been treated by our media and our culture like the droogs from Clockwork Orange are treated by the authorities: deviant vandalism, or ignorant youthful impulse. Some of the establishment views the mutated, condensed forms of this social media as ‘wrecking our language’1. But support for this social phenomenon is developing, with Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy recently proclaiming that poems were the original text messages, all of which help us distill our thoughts and feelings2. Of course this ‘distilling of thought’ and the accuracy that can entail has caused our view of academic writing and the The book is available in an edition of 160 copies (the philosophical work to become skewed. D PlsUR of d Txt character limit of an SMS and Twitter) and as an eBook, aims to subvert and confuse these cultural assumptions both available from the artist’s website (www.thetuber. through a work of collaborative translation. In this book co.uk) and has been exhibited across the UK and in artist Nik DavEz (Nick Davies) has undertaken a task in the Hungary with upcoming shows in Tokyo and as a part of lofty heights of academic translation, translating a book by the shortlist for The Title Art Prize at BlankSpace in Roland Barthes called The Pleasure of the Text into the Manchester. The editioned book costs £9.50 (+ £1.50 p&p), demonised tongue of texters. But instead of concentrating whilst the eBook is £1.50, with all proceeds from the on the nuances of the original authors intentions, the eBook going to the National Literacy Trust. translation has been an anonymous online collaboration To contact the artist please visit www.thetuber.co.uk with other texters aiming to create a text more socially or email: [email protected] relevant to our contemporary lives. The original text has been translated through the use of transl8it.com, an online 1. John Humphreys in The Daily Mail in 2009 text speak database that web users can both add to and 2. Carol Ann Duffy in The Telegraph on 6th September 2011

Pa g e 20 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Dale Schreiner - Thereafter serenity, and events such as the foot and mouth epidemic Published by Vela Noche in the UK that led to large areas of the countryside being Thereafter embodies the process of coming to terms with temporarily unaccessible. It is during these periods of time the fundamentally unanswerable questions: “Why did my that I recognise how important the natural environment father’s wife shoot him to death and what prevents her from is to me and long to immerse myself in it and portray it recalling the event?” With the authorities’ inability to stitch through my work, consequently the themes of restriction together a clear explanation of the driving forces that led and freedom consistently reoccur in my pieces. to the shooting, no one will ever really know what happened or why.

While a 75-month manslaughter conviction may address society’s need for justice to be served, it’s unlikely to put the questions to rest for those immediately affected.

This book is the result of wandering alone, clearheaded without thinking, making space for feelings to become tangible. Photographing urban, yet wild and protected parkland provides cover for wrestling with issues not ready to be overcome. Its emotional terrain is respectfully conveyed in the quiet, subtlety toned prints brought to life on Moab Entrada archival paper by printer Lauren Henkin, letterpress printed and bound in Musashi cloth and St. Flock- 2009. Handbound artist’s book, formed by tearing, and worked onto with watercolour and enamel paint. Armand Old Master handmade paper endsheets by Sandy Height - 12 cm, Diameter - 30 cm Tilcock of lone goose press, with a short accompanying text by the artist.

22 images, Moab Entrada rag, case bound, edition of 20, $275. http://www.velanoche.com/book/thereafter

Reports & Reviews

Louisa Boyd - Mini feature

My work is inspired by the natural world, and the human connection with it and I am fascinated by the innate human response to nature. Despite the fact that many of us live detached from the natural environment in cities with lives governed by technology, we are still able to understand Landscape within a book - 2001. Handbound artist’s book, the powerful symbolism that nature depicts. We can relate folded with a landscape image painted onto it in watercolour. to these themes with ease, understanding that a bird Height - 6 cm, Radius - 8 cm in flight can display freedom, a flock can demonstrate companionship and a forest pathway can show a personal Working with books sculpturally allows me to represent journey. The symbols need little explanation, they are meant these concepts. Pages can be used restrictively and may only to be accessible to all; to illustrate the intrinsic human give glimpses of information contained within them due to connection to nature. cut work, the way that they are bound and exhibited. Many of my books are not meant to be opened with pages turned, My interest in this area has developed over a series of they are meant to be viewed only as a three dimensional personal experiences and events that have led me to feel form. Some books depict birds flying from them, released at a distance from nature, periods of my life where I have from their binding, others use the edges of the pages to lived in cities and found it difficult to experience quiet and show a broken image of a landscape.

Pa g e 21 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k stop press!

6th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2012, Theme: “Love” The previous Deadline of 15 November HAS CHANGED to 9 December 2011. http://exhibitions.artistsbook lt/2011/09/01/6th-international-artists- book-triennial-vilnius-2012/

Regard sur nos productions - Part I mfc - michèle didier, Paris Exhibition until Saturday December 24, 2011 After Inside a Triangle by Claude Closky, Ephemera Paper manipulation 1 - 2002. Exploratory work with paper 25 cm x 25 cm x 10 cm by Christian Marclay and Annette Messager’s albums, the exhibition Regard sur nos productions will allow mfc - michèle didier to provide a retrospective look on a In other senses using the book itself represents another selection of its productions as a publisher of books and move away from our cultural heritage, as they become multiples. In the exhibition, visitors will be able to discover replaced by technology. I am not standing against the the editions by Claude Closky, David Cunningham, On advances we have made, only wanting to recognise the Kawara, Allan McCollum, John Miller, Jonathan Monk, importance of what has gone before. In such senses, the Klaus Scherübel, Jim Shaw, Josh Smith, Christopher Wool, process of bookbinding has become as important as the and many more. sculptures themselves and the concepts behind them. Recognising the beauty and skill involved in making books All these works, and many more, will be exhibited at is just as much part of the work. It is a slow process, and mfc - michèle didier gallery in Paris. requires patience, concentration and practice, but it is 66, rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, F-75003 Paris. calming and rewarding. The hand bound book stands Open Tuesday to Saturday, 12 midday - 7pm out in an age where we are used to fast results and Subway: Temple, Réaumur-Sébastopol, Arts et Métiers machine-made objects. http://www.micheledidier.com Materials and technique play an important role in the pieces, and I dedicate a lot of time to experimenting with paper, pushing it as a material and understanding it’s fragile properties, appreciating what it can and cannot do. I enjoy the sometimes unpredictable nature of the material. The conscious decision to We wish all our readers a happy and peaceful 2012 leave these pieces without covers exposes them and their message and further UWE Bristol Exhibitions at Bower Ashton Library alludes to the delicacy of our natural world. Opening hours summer time: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm Please call to check opening hours before travelling Take Flight - 2009. as times vary during vacation periods. Handbound artist’s book, formed Library main desk telephone: 0117 328 4750 by cutting and tearing, and worked onto with watercolour. If you have any book arts news, please email items for the Height 14 cm, Diameter - 12 cm Book Arts Newsletter to: [email protected] Please supply images as good quality RGB jpegs (300 dpi) http://www.facebook.com/louisaboydart Next deadline: 12th January for the http://www.flickr.com/photos/louisaboyd/ February 2012 newsletter http://twitter.com/#!/LouBoydArt www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk / [email protected] http://louisaboydart.tumblr.com/

Pa g e 22 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Private presses and fine printing in Australia and New Zealand : a bibliographical extract, 2010, compiled by Jürgen Wegner, Librarian, Brandywine Archive, Sydney

Jürgen Wegner was, until it ceased publication in 2006, the Australian editor of the ABHB, Annual bibliography of the history of the printed book and libraries and its electronic version, Book history online, until this too was discontinued. The following bibliography is an extract from the expanded new series, the Annual bibliography of books and printing in Australia and New Zealand, which is produced by the Blackdawn Press for friends and supporters of the Brandywine Archive, Sydney (email: [email protected]).

The 35 entries below are for material published in 2010 plus any earlier material from 2005—the starting date for this bibliography. Links are provided for items which are only available online. The note “also available online” with no link is given where both a print and an online version is avail-able. The numbers in the entries refer to the original reference numbers in the 2010 bibliography.

Alan Loney [electronic resource]. [S.l.] : Wiki-pedia, 2010. 1 electronic document. N: New Zea-land, now Australian, private printer; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan-Loney; #10/733.

Ampersand Duck [electronic resource]. [Canberra] : Ampersand Duck, 2010. 1 website : ill. N: Web-site of Caren Florance’s private press, Ampersand Duck; also includes material on her artists’ books; http:// ampersandduck.com/art/; #10/734.

Florance, Caren. Caren Florance, Ampersand Duck, Canberra, Australia [electronic resource]. Camden, N.Y. : Letterpress Printers of the World, 2005. 1 electronic document. N: http://letterpressprinters.org/bios_026.htm; #10/735.

Florance, Caren. ‘Game over’ broadsides [elec-tronic resource]. [Canberra] : Ampersand Duck, 2010. 1 electronic document : ill. N: Description of a series of broadsides by Natalie Azzopardi, “my first ANU EASS Ampersand Duck Broadside Resi-dency recipient”; produced including wood type; http://ampersandduck.com/ art/2010/05/ 13/game-over-broadsides/; #10/736.

Florance, Caren. Printing poets at Otago [electro-nic resource]. [Canberra] : Ampersand Duck, 2010. 1 electronic document : ill. N: Describes her work as Printer in Residence at the University of Otago’s Otakou Press; http://ampersandduck.com/art/2010/ 08/17/printing-poets-at-otago/; #10/737.

Florance, Caren. Stop the press : the allure of ink. IN: Artlink, 30 (2010) 2, p. 42-44 : ill. N: On the resurgence of private and other letterpress printers in Australia; #10/738.

Gardner, Angela. Synthesis and opposition. IN: Australian book arts journal, 1 (2010), p. 10-11 : ill. N: Three artists’ books in progress plus her training in letterpress printing and work with metal and wood type; #10/739.

Holmes, John. John Holmes, Frayed Friskett Press, Dunedin, New Zealand [electronic resource]. Camden, N.Y. : Letterpress Printers of the World, 2005. 1 electronic document. N: http://letterpressprinters.org/bios_031.htm; #10/740.

Keith, Hamish. Hobgoblins of little minds. IN: Listener (Wellington, N.Z.), 222 (2010) 3639, p. 47. N: Kilmog’s Press’ lack of success in finding grants for its craft printing; #10/741. Page 1 Kells, Stuart. Harlequin dreams. IN HIS: Rare (Edgecliff, NSW : Folio, 2010), p. 203-217 : ill. N: Richard Griffin’s Gryphon Press books and book-bindings; #10/742.

Kells, Stuart. The kangaroo is badly marked. IN HIS: Rare (Edgecliff, NSW : Folio, 2010), p. 219-229 : ill. N: Peter Marsh and his Marsh, Taylor & Walsh, Queensberry Hill Press and Garravembi Press imprints; #10/743.

Kerr, Donald. Fit the fifth. IN: Knight letter, 2 (2006) 7, p. 38-39 : ill. N: The printing of Carroll’s The hunting of the Snark at the University of Otago’s Otakou Press; #10/744.

Kerr, Donald. Peter Simpson (ed.). Leo Bense-mann: ‘Engravings on wood’. IN: Journal of New Zealand art history, 27 (2006), p. 101-103. N: Review of book published: [Auckland] : Holloway Press, 2004; also available online; #10/745.

Kerr, Donald. Printer in Residence Programme, University of Otago Library. [Dunedin : University of Otago Library], 2009. 15 leaves : ill., B7-15. N: The Printer in Residence Programme with a des-cription of the books produced; #10/746.

Lindquist, Stephanie. The Lindsays : artists, wri-ters and publishers. South Bank, [Brisbane] : State Library of Queensland, 2010. 16 p. : ill. N: An exhibition from its Lindsay Collection of Pat Corri-gan (formerly Harry Chaplin’s); includes many private press books, especially the Fanfrolico Press; for a review see #10/8; #10/747.

Maslen, Keith. The Bibliography Room Press, 1961-2005 [manuscript]. [Dunedin : Keith Maslen], 2005. 20 leaves : B7-20. N: “July 2003; revised August 2005”; unpublished manuscript; #10/748.

Maslen, Keith. From Bibliography Room to Ota-kou Press. Dunedin : Frayed Frisket Press, 2010. [15] p. : ill. N: Talk on the renaming of the Press and the launch of the Otakou Press’ book Pine in 2005; limited, numbered and signed edition; un-pag.; #10/749.

Myrtle Street Gallery, the Grange, Brisbane. IN: Australian book arts journal, 3 (2010), p. [36]-37 : ill. (Profile). N: Includes a description of instal-lation of letterpress printing equipment so they can start printing artists’ books; #10/750.

Pryde, Pam. Gregynog Press. IN: University of Melbourne collections, 6 (2010), p. 42-45 : ill. N: Purchase of an almost complete set of their public-cations, 1922-1940; in the Acquisitions section; also available online; #10/751. Pryde, Pam. ‘Unique, never published, Kelmscott text proof on vellum with a marvellous associ-ation’. IN: University of Melbourne collections, 7 (2010), p. 43-48 : ill. N: Of The Golden legend (1891) from the c o l l e c t i o n o f M o r r i s ’ f r i e n d , C h a r l e s F a i r f a x M u r r a y ; a l s o a v a i l a b l e o n l i n e ; #10/752.

Sellon, Andrew. [The Otakou Press edition of Carroll’s ‘The hunting of the Snark’] reviewed by Andrew Sellon. IN: Knight letter, 2 (2006) 7, p. 39 : ill. N: #10/753.

Sergeant, Andrew. ‘Always start with an em!’ [electronic resource]. IN: Gateways, 104 (2010). 1 electronic document : ill. N: Report of a course in hand printing offered at the 2010 Australasian Rare Book Summer School by Carolyn Fraser (Idlewild Press); http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/gateways/issues/ 104/Letterpress.html; #10/754.

Sherce Kinlyside : Red Rag Press, Townsville, Qld. IN: Australian book arts journal, 2 (2010), p. [2]-5 : ill. (Profile). N: Printer and publisher of fine printing and artists’ books; with details of her work The reluctant nun (2007); #10/755.

Page 2 Simpson, Peter. Leo Bensemann : an art venture. IN: Bulletin of the Christchurch Art Gallery, 163 (2010/2011), p. 34-37 : ill. N: On his work as artist but includes material on the Caxton Press and reproductions from his Fantastica (1937); incom-plete text with p. 37 reprinting the beginning of the article; also available online; #10/756.

Skinner, Carolynne. ‘The Wayzgoose affair’ by Jadwiga Jarvis [electronic resource]. IN: Bone-folder, 4 (2008) 2, p. 46-48 : ill. N: Review of Jadwiga Jarvis’ The Wayzgoose affair (Katoomba, [NSW] : Wayzgoose Press, 2007); http://digilib.syr.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/bonefolder&CISOPTR=71&filename=72.pdf; #10/757

Skinner, Damian. Hooked on wonder and mystery. IN: New Zealand books, Aug. 2005, p. 6. N: Brief review of Leo Bensemann’s ‘Engravings on wood’ ([Auckland] : Holloway Press, 2004); also avail-able online; #10/758.

State Library of Victoria. Private press [elec-tronic resource]. [Melbourne] : State Library of Victoria, 2010. 1 electronic document : ill. N: Slide show; with links to Kelmscott Press and Wayzgoose Press; http:// www.slv.vic.gov.au/our-collections/collection-strengths/history-book/ private-press; #10/759

Stone, Kerrianne. Write of fancy : the Golden Cockerell Press. [Melbourne? : Kerrianne Stone], 2007. 1 v. N: Thesis (M.A. Art Curatorship)—University of Melbourne, 2007; pagination and other details not known; #10/760.

Wegner, J.P. Artists’ books, fine printing and pri-vate presses in Australia and New Zealand : a bibliography, 2005-2008. IN: Book arts newsletter, 56 (2010), p. 27-31 : B. N: Cumulates material which appeared in Brandywine bookman’s vade mecum, 14 (2008)-16 (2008) and Annual biblio-graphy of books and printing in Australia and New Zealand, 4 (2008); pt. 1; pt. 2: 57 (2010), p. 26-29; and: pt. 3: 58 (2010), p. 19-22; also available online; #10/761.

Wegner, J.P. “Doing something for collections” : a bookman remembers Jennifer Alison. IN: Biblio- graphical Society of Australia and New Zealand broadsheet, 84 (2010), p. 7-9. N: Obituary of the late Acquisitions Librarian, University of Sydney; includes material on their Detective Fiction Collec-tion and private press collection; #10/762.

Wegner, J.P. Gilde Gutenberg. IN: Shadow-land, 26 (2010), p. [7-16]. N: Association of Swiss private presses and printing museums; also pro-duced in electronic form in Brandywine bookman’s repository for Australia & New Zealand, 26 (2010); #10/763

Wegner, J.P. Otakou Press’ Printer in Residence Programme. IN: Brandywine bookman’s vade mecum, 25 (2010), p. [19-20]. N: Also produced in electronic form in Brandywine bookman’s reposi-tory for Australia & New Zealand, 25 (2010); #10/764.

Wegner, J.P. The Phrontisterion’s common press. IN: Brandywine bookman’s vade mecum, 25 (2010), p. [8-9]. (The press spotter’s guide ; 5). N: Also produced in electronic form in Brandywine bookman’s repository for Australia & New Zea-land, 25 (2010); #10/765.

Whitelock, Paula Jane. “Coming full circle” : reviving private press printing at the University of Otago. [Wellington : Paula Jane Whitelock], 2009. 147 leaves : ill., B123-128. N: Thesis (M. Lib. And Information Studies)—School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington; on University of Otakou Library’s Printer In Resi-dence Programme and the publications of the Ota-kou Press, 2003- ; also available online; #10/766.

‘The works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted’, 1896. IN: Paul Brunton’s One hundred (Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2010), p. 49 : ill. N: The Kelmscott Chaucer; #10/767 Page 3